The Insect Play

The Insect Play (1939)

Released Music, Drama · 90 min

 

The Insect Play (1939)

Released Music, Drama · 90 min

 

A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.
BBC,

A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.
BBC,
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RUNTIME
N/A minRELEASED
May 29, 1939COUNTRY
US, GBLANGUAGE
ENSPOKEN
EnglishBUDGET
N/AREVENUE
N/A

Cast & Crew

Edmund Willard

Acting

The Tranp

Maire O'Neill

Acting

Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist

Wendy Toye

Directing

Mrs. Cricket

Geoffrey Wincott

Acting

The Parasite

Wilfrid Grantham

Acting

The Lepidopterist / First Snail

Pamela Standish

Acting

The Chrysalis

Frank Birch

Acting

Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows

Charles Peters

Acting

Robber Beetle/Journalist

Rupert Bruce Lockhart

Acting

The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor

Sheila Kay

Acting

The Larva

Leslie French

Acting

Mr. Cricket / Second Snail

Wilfred Franks

Acting

The Blind Ant Timekeeper

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